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… “External Democracy Promotion” (EDP) is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional working group of scholars from the social sciences. Our main focus is on international and comparative studies. Participants come from universities and research institutes in Europe.

News

12. December 24 | News

From Research to EU Policy Circles

Sonja Grimm and Tina Freyburg presented research findings from HE projects to EU Commission officials & Horizon Europe sister and cousin projects. On 6 December, EDP network members Sonja Grimm (representing EMBRACE) and Tina Freyburg (representing REDEMOS) presented the results …

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12. December 24 | News

Successful Application for Network Funding by the DFG

Our application for network funding has been approved! The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved network funding for the EDP-Network for the project “On the Conceptualization and Theorization of International Democracy Promotion in Times of Global Autocratization” in the amount …

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13. November 24 | News

Tina Freyburg Contributes to REDEMOS Stakeholder Conferences on Supporting Democracy in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood

As a member of the Horizon Europe-funded consortium REDEMOS, EDP member Tina Freyburg actively contributed to high-level stakeholder conferences held in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. REDEMOS focuses on exploring sustainable strategies for supporting democracy in this region. These conferences provided …

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12. November 24 | News

The EDP Has a New Member: Welcome, Roman Stolzenberger!

We are happy to announce that Roman Stolzenberger has joined the EDP Network as a member and are looking forward to working with him. Roman Stolzenberger is currently a Master’s student in Political Science and Sociology at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. Before …

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Publications

Julia Leininger | 2024

Religious actors and autocratization

In: Aurel Croissant / Luca Tomini (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization, London: Routledge, 289-304

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Johannes Gerschewski , Heiko Giebler, Sebastian Hellmeier, Eda Keremoğlu, Michael Zürn | 2024

The limits of sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected attitudes about Qatar

In: PLoS ONE 19 (8)

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Sarah von Billerbeck , Katarina P. Coleman, Steffen Eckhard, Benjamin Zyla | 2024

Local knowledges in international peacebuilding: acquisition, filtering, and systematic bias

In: International Studies Review, 26 (4)

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EDP Wire

12. December 24 | Karina Mross

The dream of dictatorship

‘Under certain circumstances‚ a dictatorship is the better form of government.’ Only six out of ten people eligible to vote in Germany reject this statement outright. More than 20% at least partly agree, as a representative survey has shown. A …

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20. April 24 | Benjamin Schütze

Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies

19 April 2024. In this essay Benjamin Schütze discusses Germany’s support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza following the January 26, 2024 ICJ ruling, the emergence of several “red lines” in German discourse surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and the role of …

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